Path to Victory

The game plan for Republicans to hold their majority in the US House of Representatives and gain a majority in the US Senate is not to pass an amnesty for illegal aliens couched in the term "comprehensive immigration reform". The road map to a GOP win does not start with Republican thinkers figuring out a way to make Obama Care work. Republicans will not win by making common cause with Barack Hussein Obama. The path to regaining control of Congress and incidentally to gaining the Presidency in 2016 is not to repudiate and do battle against the TEA Party, but to embrace conservatism including the smaller government, more personal responsibility ethos of the TEA Party and banish John Boehner and Eric Cantor from leadership in the House because they support the bill of terribles I have just enumerated and do not want to oppose the President as he drags the country leftward but to find areas of agreement where they can work with Obama. The political consultants who have advised the GOP into two Presidential election losses in a row to a man who is at most an incompetent version of a Northern European socialist (and in my mind, even further left than that) are telling GOP leadership in Congress that they must not be seen as an obstacle to the President and that they can not afford to be cast in the light as "obstructionists or a do-nothing Congress" if they want to win majorities of the twenty percent of the nation who vote independent of party affiliation. If the GOP listens and acts on the ideas of these consultants, they will cause huge numbers of conservatives who have heretofore backed Republican candidates to first try to primary moderate Republicans, and if they fail to defeat the sellouts to conservatism in the primaries, to vote third party or stay home on election day. Republican candidates will once again triumph only when they return the party to conservative values.